The Bearcats nonetheless presented challenges to the Wolverines on Tuesday night.

“They had a great game plan,” Michigan coach John Beilein said after the Wolverines’ 67-39 victory at the Crisler Center raised No. 3 U-M’s record to 10-0.

“Binghamton didn’t send anyone to the offensive board. They had five guys go back on defense,” Beilein continued.

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“Transition offense is what we’re pretty good at, and they tried to stop our transition offense. They tried to shorten the game up. We had to value the ball. Thank goodness our defense did a good job.”

Michigan, Beilein said, won’t encounter too many Big Ten opponents who try the Binghamton tack. Nor will Saturday’s foe, West Virginia, a team Beilein used to coach.

But a lesson is a lesson, and Beilein will accept any teaching opportunity, even ones that come from playing a 2-9 team like Binghamton.

“We were seeing lots of great things out there,” he said. “Either things we can improve on, or where we can see we’re making progress.

“We ran some stuff just so we could get it on film.”

Michigan made 27 of 61 shots from the floor against Binghamton, not a good shooting performance, in Beilein’s opinion.

“When we have nights like that, it’s important that we guard people,” Beilein said. “We guarded them well today.”